# neighborhood
## English
### Alternative forms

* neighbourhood (UK)

### Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor +‎ -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor +‎ -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
Dutch nabijheid (common in modern language), Dutch naburigheid (uncommon in modern language).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
* (US) IPA: /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/
* Audio (US):(file)
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### Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods) (American spelling)
* The residential area near one's home.
    He lives in my neighborhood.
* The inhabitants of a residential area.
    The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
* A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
    We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
* An approximate amount.
    He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
* The quality of physical proximity.
    The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
* (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
    Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
** 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245,
    […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms Of France and England, whose very shores look pale With envy of each other’s happiness, May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord In their sweet bosoms […]
** 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
** 1835, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
* (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
** 1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria, page 286:At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.
* (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
* (topology) Within a topological space:
** A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
** Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
* (topology) Within a metric space:
** A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
** Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
* (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
* (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
** (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.
*** 1990 July 9, David Hiebeler, “Languages for programming cellular automata”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule.
*** 2005 September 7, IzI, “reversible universal 1D CA?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):Universal: Is able to simulate other CA, the neighborhood size may be limited but the number of cell value should be unlimited (big neighborhoods can be transformed into multivalued cells).
*** 2022 February 11, Mateon1, “Game of Life with real 8 neighbors”, in comp.theory.cell-automata‎ (Usenet):I've seen this space colloqually referred to as MAP (presumably since it maps a 3x3 neighborhood into a future cell state), or more precisely and if you want to be pedantic, since there are a lot of variants of cellular automata: 2D Range-1 Moore neighborhood 2-state (non-totalistic) cellular automata (regular euclidean grid implied, although some people explore toroidal configurations, nonstandard tilings, or arbitrary graphs).

#### Synonyms

* vicinity
* proximity
* quarter

#### Derived terms

* agrihood
* clear the neighborhood
* compact neighborhood
* eco-neighborhood
* gayborhood
* gay neighborhood
* hood
* in close neighborhood
* in the neighborhood of
* Margolus neighborhood
* microneighborhood
* Moore neighborhood
* nabe
* neighborhood electric vehicle
* neighborhoodlike
* neighborhood play
* neighborhoody
* orthographic neighborhood
* punctured neighborhood
* there goes the neighborhood
* von Neumann neighborhood

#### Translations

Albanian: fqinj (sq) m
Arabic: جِوَار m (jiwār), قُرْب m (qurb), حَيّ (ar) m (ḥayy)
Gulf Arabic: فريج (firīj)
Aragonese: barrio m, vico m
Armenian: թաղ (hy) (tʻaġ)
Aromanian: vitsinatã f, vitsinãtati f, vitsinami f
Asturian: barriu (ast) m
Basque: auzo
Belarusian: вако́ліцы f pl (vakólicy)
Bulgarian: съсе́дство (bg) n (sǎsédstvo), око́лност (bg) f (okólnost)
Catalan: barri (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 附近 (fu$^6$ gan$^6$), 鄰里 (leon$^4$ lei$^5$)
Mandarin: 附近 (zh) (fùjìn), 鄰里 (zh) (línlǐ), 周圍 / 周围 (zh) (zhōuwéi), 街坊 (zh) (jiēfang)
Czech: sousedství (cs) n
Danish: kvarter (da) n, nabolag n, omegn (da) c, bydel (da) (urban)
Dutch: buurt (nl) f, kwartier (nl) n, wijk (nl) f or m
Egyptian: (hꜣw)
Esperanto: najbaraĵo
Estonian: naabrus, ümbruskond
Faroese: grannalag n
Finnish: naapurusto (fi), lähistö (fi), kulmakunta (fi), alue (fi), lähiympäristö (fi), ympäristö (fi)
French: voisinage (fr) m, environs (fr) m pl, quartier (fr) m
Georgian: სამეზობლო (samezoblo)
German: Nachbarschaft (de) f, Umgebung (de) f, Kiez (de) m, Viertel (de) n, Quartier (de) n, Stadtteil (de) m
Greek: γειτονιά (el) f (geitoniá), περιοχή (el) f (periochí), συνοικία (el) f (synoikía)
Gujarati: પડોશ m (paḍoś), પ્રતિવેશ m (prativeś)
Hebrew: שְׁכוּנָה (he) f (shkhuná)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: környék (hu)
Icelandic: nágrenni (is) n
Indonesian: lingkungan (id), lingkungan tetangga, pertetanggaan
Italian: vicinato (it) m, quartiere (it) m
Japanese: 近所 (ja) (きんじょ, kinjo), 近隣 (ja) (きんりん, kinrin), 周辺 (ja) (しゅうへん, shūhen), 付近 (ja) (ふきん, fukin)
Khmer: ក្រវល់ (krâvôl), សង្កាត់ (km) (sɑngkat)
Korean: 근처(近處) (ko) (geuncheo), 부근(付近) (ko) (bugeun), 동네 (ko) (dongne)
Ladino: maale, vezindado
Latin: vicinitas f, vīcīnia f, proximum (la) n
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: kaimynystė f
Macedonian: соседство n (sosedstvo), комшилук m (komšiluk)
Malay: kejiranan
Malayalam: അയൽപക്കം (ml) (ayalpakkaṁ)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: naboskap n, strøk
Bokmål: naboskap n
Old English: nēawist f
Polish: sąsiedztwo (pl) n
Portuguese: vizinhança (pt) f, bairro (pt) m
Punjabi: ਗੁਆਂਢ m (guāṇḍha), ਪੜੋਸ m (paṛos)
Romanian: vecinătate (ro) f
Russian: сосе́дство (ru) n (sosédstvo), окре́стности (ru) f pl (okréstnosti), бли́зость (ru) f (blízostʹ), окру́га (ru) f (okrúga)
Scots: neibourheid
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: су́седство n (Ekavian), су́сједство n (Ijekavian)
Roman: súsedstvo (sh) n (Ekavian), súsjedstvo (sh) n (Ijekavian)
Slovak: susedstvo n
Slovene: soseska f
Spanish: vecindad (es) f, barrio (es) m, vecindario (es) m, cercanía (es) f
Swedish: grannskap (sv) c, kvarter (sv) c
Tagalog: kapitbahayan
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: civar (tr), semt (tr), mahalle (tr), yöre (tr), muhit (tr)
Ukrainian: сусі́дство n (susídstvo), окру́га (uk) f (okrúha), око́лиці f pl (okólyci)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Volapük: niläd (vo)
Welsh: bro f, cymdogaeth f :
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### See also

* neighborship
* neighborhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia